VIDEO: Stories from Colorado’s Rocky Flats Workers

In the second half of the 20th century, employees at the Rocky Flats Plant worked to ensure the US did not lose the Cold War. Since then, however, these workers have been forced back into a battle, fighting health issues due to radiation exposure and other painful effects of prolonged work with nuclear weapons. Photojournalist RJ Sangosti made portraits of former Rocky Flats workers printed them on cloth paper, aged the prints in wind and outside elements, and then hung them on the fence that surrounds the old Rocky Flats Plant.
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